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Re: enhancement to M-x telnet
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: enhancement to M-x telnet |
Date: |
16 Apr 2004 12:43:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> > I frequently use telnet to check connections to other hosts, and as such I
> > need
> > to specify an alternative port number to connect to.
> >
> > The following patch allows you to append the port number to the hostname,
> > e.g.
> > M-x telnet RET gnu.org:80 RET
> >
> > An alternative interface would be to specify the port number as a numeric
> > prefix arg, but that seems rather obscure IMO.
>
> How about letting it read the port interactively when called with a prefix
> arg? Or maybe C-u to read interactively, other numeric prefixes specify
> the port directly. This would allow implementing completion on port
> names.
Yes, that's also a viable approach... (even without port name completion).
WDOT?
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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk